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Ross Intermediate School
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Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 87 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 86 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 87% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 77% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Ohio's top nor bottom 10%.
About Ross Intermediate School
Located at 3371 Hamilton-Cleves Road, in Hamtilton, Ohio, Ross Intermediate School is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school that educates 374 students (grades 4 through 5), one of the schools within Ross Local.
Ross Local runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,607 students. Ross Intermediate School is one of those campuses.
Demographically, Ross Intermediate School shows that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 76%.
On the resource side, The school employs 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.4:1. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 30% of students at Ross Intermediate School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Butler County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ross Intermediate School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 77.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 86.7%.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Butler County indicate median household income runs about $81,590, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Ross Intermediate School is one of 90 public schools in Butler County (combined enrollment of about 59,107 students).
Ross Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ross Intermediate School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Ross Intermediate School at 1st of 6; the average score across the group is 75.6%.
Ross Intermediate School operates from a small-town location.
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